English title: My General's Women
Set in the Mexican Revolution, the film centers on a rebel general and his troubles with two women. Lupe, his "soldadera", marched alongside him in the battlefield until he takes over a town and establishes himself as the local chief. That town, coincidentally, is the place of residence of one of his former lovers, Carlota, who is now married to a wealthy man who is away on business.
This unusual film goes to such melodramatic extremes as to become a sort of satire. The two titular women, though in polar opposites of the spectrum as defined by the film's moral frame of reference, have a point in common in that they exist only for the purpose of fighting tooth and nail for their "general", who apparently is endowed with magnetic attraction powers of a supernatural order. The film goes in a crescendo of sexist display with such hilarious touches as having the protagonist leading the town's defense with his infant daughter under his arm, through to the delightfully heroic ending.
Rating: 43
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